Espressif ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway Development Board

Code name: ESP_THREAD_BR_ZIGBEE_GW

Espressif ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway development board is based on esp32h2 microcontroller and uses xtensa architecture. This board has a maximum CPU frequency of 240 MHz and a flash size of 4MB.

About Espressif ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway

The ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway is a development board designed to facilitate seamless wireless connectivity in IoT applications. It supports 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, 802.15.4 Thread, Zigbee®, and Bluetooth® 5.x (BLE) at 2.4GHz, making it highly versatile for a range of IoT use cases. Powered by the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 and ESP32-H2-MINI-1 modules, the board includes 4MB Flash and 2MB PSRAM, providing ample memory for smooth operation. Additionally, it features Sub-Ethernet capabilities, further enhancing its role as a robust Thread Border Router and Zigbee Gateway for seamless network integration and management.

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Espressif ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway

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Technical Specifications

🛰️ Connectivity

WiFi -
Bluetooth 5.0
BLE 5.0

🧠 Microcontroller

Model esp32h2
Clock Speed 240 MHz
Flash Size 4MB
Architecture xtensa

✨ Features

  • 30 digital IO pins
  • 16 external interrupt pins
  • 12 analog input pins
  • 10 PWM pins

Espressif ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway Pinout

The ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway pinout includes GPIOs optimized for wireless communication and peripheral interfaces. It provides power pins (5V, 3.3V, and GND), UART (TX, RX), I2C (SDA, SCL), SPI (MISO, MOSI, SCK, SS), and dedicated pins for 802.15.4 communication. The board also supports PWM, ADC, and multiple expansion headers for external modules.

Espressif ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway Pins Mapping Arduino IDE

Below you can find the Espressif ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway pinout. This development board provides 30 digital IO pins, out of which 16 can be used as external interrupt pins, 12 as analog input pins and 10 pins have Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM).

PinAnalogTouchPWMOther
0A11T1PWM
1PWMTX
2A12T2PWM
3PWMRX
4A10T0PWM
5PWM
12A15T5PWM
13A14T4PWM
14A16T6PWM
15A13T3PWM
16PWM
17PWM
18PWM
19PWM
21PWM
22PWM
23PWM
25A18PWMDAC1
26A19PWMDAC2
27A17T7PWM
32A4T9PWM
33A5T8PWM
34A6
35A7
Analog Analog input pins
Touch Touch pins
Function Function pins
RX / TX Receive/Transmit
LED_BUILTIN Built-in LED
PWM Pulse-Width Modulation

Default Tools

Bootloader toolesptool_py
Uploader toolesptool_py
Network uploader toolesp_ota
Bootloader address0x1000
Flash modedio
Boot modedio
Maximum upload size
1920 Kb
(1966080 B)
Maximum data size
320 Kb
(327680 B)

The Espressif ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway development board by default uses esptool_py uploader tool, esp_ota network uploader tool for Over-the-air (OTA) uploads and esptool_py bootloader tool. The bootloader starts at address "0x1000". Flash mode and boot mode for Espressif ESP Thread Border Router/Zigbee Gateway development board by default is dio and dio respectively.